As noted in the 'What's New' page previously, TrueTheater HD worked quite well visually as the screenshot comparison below shows, and as to CPU usage, with it turned on (and with other TrueTheater effects off), DVD playback consumed around 21% of the CPU, compared to 11% with TrueTheater HD turned off and hardware acceleration turned on (hardware acceleration has to be off for TrueTheater HD to work). Both of these new features are for DVD playback only. PowerDVD 9 corrects the situation by making this version's 'main' selling point what they call TrueTheater HD and TrueTheater Motion, the former is basically their version of All2HD. In my review for PowerDVD 8, I noted that DVD playback was largely faultless, but there were no innovations such as WinDVD's HD upscaling function, All2HD. There is also an 'Information' tab that will display information about your current system and technical information about the movie you are playing. There is also a new 'DVD' tab, which moves two options previously found under 'Video' to here. Let's go through the various setup sections: All the usual options you would expect are there.

The configuration options should be familiar to users of PowerDVD. Because of the need to connect to an online service (MoovieLive), you do need to agree to a few more things and you might optionally want to sign up for an account online to access all the MoovieLive features.

Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R (built-in audio, Realtek ALC889A).

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